Christian Writers and Preachers

O what mercies have we to be thankful for, yet how little are we conscious and affectingly and habitually sensible of them.

—William Wilberforce

I have sadly neglected the cultivation of my natural talents. Let me now attend to it, imploring the divine blessing. I will form a plan of study and exercise, having a special reference to the faults of my intellect, whether natural or superinduced.

—William Wilberforce

In proportion as vital Christianity can be revived, in that same proportion the church establishment is strengthened

—William Wilberforce

How little have I done for God since I devoted myself to him. I fly for pardon to the mercy of God in Christ.

—William Wilberforce

He will give to him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

—William Wilberforce

May I be active and unwearied in doing good and improving my time etc. Amen. Live by faith above all.

—William Wilberforce

O may I desire to praise God and Christ and present body and soul a reasonable service of sacrifice.

—William Wilberforce

I humbly hope I look up with faith as the only way of obtaining all spiritual blessings, renouncing any other plea but Christs’s merits and the Scripture promises.

—William Wilberforce

Enable me, O God, for Christ’s sake, to turn to thee.

—William Wilberforce

Christianity without distinction professes an equal regard for all human beings, and was characterised by her first promulgator as the messenger of ‘glad tidings to the poor’.

—William Wilberforce

How can we easily love our neighbour as ourselves, if we consider him at the same time as our rival, and are intent upon surpassing him in the pursuit of whatever is the subject of our competition?

—William Wilberforce

I pray to be enabled to observe a due medium between undue conformity with the world and excessive separation and peculiarity.

—William Wilberforce

I will press forward. Let him that is athirst come. Whoever will, let him take of the water of life *freely*. Even so Lord Jesus. Amen.

—William Wilberforce

I have been praying to God through Christ and I will humbly trust to his promises, Ho! Every one that thirsteth.

—William Wilberforce

How wonderful that a private man should have such an influence on the temporal and eternal happiness of millions; literally, millions on millions yet unborn! O God, make me more earnest for Thy glory; and may I act more from real love and gratitude to my redeeming Lord.

—William Wilberforce

In whatever class or order of society Christianity prevails, she sets herself to rectify the particular faults, or, if we would speak more distinctly, to counteract the particular mode of selfishness, to which that class is liable.

—William Wilberforce

O let me press forward with renewed vigour, laying aside every weight, etc. and growing in heavenly mindedness and love and joy and every Christian grace.

—William Wilberforce

Above all, may the love of Christ constrain me to live no longer to myself, but to him who died and rose again.

—William Wilberforce

These men would barter comfort for greatness. In their vain reveries they forget that a nation consists of individuals, and that true national prosperity is no other than the multiplication of particular happiness.

—William Wilberforce

O may God through Christ and by the Spirit enable me now to live in faith and by love.

—William Wilberforce

O that I might feel more, and act more, and be more useful. O God bless me through Christ.

—William Wilberforce

I humbly despair of self and fly to thee O Christ.

—William Wilberforce

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him. – C.S. Lewis

“I do not know how it is that we have been kept together in love, helped to abound in labour, and enabled to be firm in the faith, unless it be that special grace has watched over us.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Fundamentalism has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is simply orthodoxy without the Holy Spirit. Everywhere among conservatives we find persons who are Bible-taught but not Spirit-taught.

—AW Tozer

The man who is willing to settle for barren life will never experience the joy of the Holy Spirit or the deep satisfaction of fruitful living

—AW Tozer

His mercy & grace are infinite & His patient understanding is beyond measure, but He will not aid men in their selfish striving after personal gain. He will not help men to attain ends which, when attained, usurp the place He by every right should hold in their affection.

—Tozer

I believe that a mighty resurgence of the Spirit’s power among us will open again wells of hymnody long forgotten. For song can never bring the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit does invariably bring song.

—AW Tozer

The Holy Spirit whispers faithfully, reminding us of the Christ of God … walking in flesh, God Almighty come to live among us & to save

—AW Tozer

It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man’s lordship has cost us too much.

—AW Tozer